oh my gosh its so cool all the things that are happenig here, the lord really does bless those who serve and follow the rules. we got our sacrament attendance to 43 this week! yes, naguswag kami! we had 5 investigators at church and we had one other that had something come up and couldnt make it. we could have had 50 but some members were late and have gotten offended. they dont like our branch president because he doesnt help them but that because he lives in a different city, but oh well. we are doing our best to make sure the members know we are different than the last elders that ran this place into the ground. we have struggled since i got here to get 1 or 2 lessons with members but this week we had 4! and at one we had 3 members it was awesome, it makes our job so much easier. so this week some how we were able to bring our numbers up even though we really just walked to everyone we knew like every day hopeing some one would let us in. but in the end it paid off.
so this week we had zone meeting on tuesday in tolosa with the district president and wednesday was zone conference. so we were in tacloban all day and got to hear from one of the area presidency elder ardern from new zealand, it was pretty cool. then we went to dulag and had some extra elders at our apartment because there were no busses going to their area that late at night. but then we went out and taught and despite the set backs we got 5 new investigators this week and one of them is a polotician so its awesome. but we still need to work on some members as well. we went to see one lady who told us the church is true but the book of mormon is only true when it applies to her and all the church leaders and the prophet are liars. so yay for dulag! but we will get them back! apparently we have 150 members here in dulag we just have to find them, so yay, but we can do it. so im really starting to get the hang of the language i find my self talking to people for a while and then they realize im not using english they are like wow what happened, i just tell them im not speaking warry only english and that they are speaking english too! its fun to see their faces and our polotician investigator was like do you guys beleive in the holy spirit because i think thats why you can speak our language. i was like yup and he asked how long id been here i was like one month yesterday, it was awesome! i really love this language and want to teach it to my kids when i have them so they can speak 2 languages itll be awesome and it wont be spanish like everyone else in America. but ya aperently when you get a filipino comp you learn tagalog because a lot of them dont learn the language because everyone speaks tagalog so they can just speak it so maybe ill be able to learn it as well, that'll be cool.
so i really love this place and i hope you all are have as good a time as i am. the time is just flying by its crazy to think ive been in the philippines for more than a month now. well i love you all and want you all to know that i miss you and cant wait to see you after my mission and hopefully by then ill have forgotten a ton of english like some of the frends ive made here because i really want to speak this language so untill next week love
Elder Coontz
No comments:
Post a Comment